stl was open, I click on the part, then right click, select Convert to Base Feature, I selected output to solid, OK and it was done and worked correctly.Įvan, What I did is when you go to open your. stl came in fine and matched what the customer had. So it sees the 12 as the value and the import doesn't know or care what it is but as soon as I changed my import option to mm the. The customer exported in mm and I imported in inch. I opened a customer model and it looked correct until I made a measurement and it was 12' the real measurement was 0.473 or 12mm. stl file (inch or mm) when opening the file and change it in your options to match before opening it to keep it at the correct values. Make sure you know what your units are of the.

This next comment doesn't really have anything to do with how the Mesh Enabler works other than how you import then use the Enabler:

It is not known if this technology will be incorporated into a commercial product.Seems to work fine now after Rocky fixed it up. Similarly the Inventor 2013 compatible preview is available until Januat which time the license expires and the function will be disabled. The Inventor 2012 compatible preview is available until Januat which time the license expires and the function will be disabled. As part of the conversion process, the technology preview also does some simplification of the faceted data by merging multiple mesh triangles into a single face when possible. The graphical mesh data is converted into B-Rep Model data that can be used similar to imported solids and surfaces. The resulting Base features can then be used for further operations including drawings and measurements.Īfter installing the technology preview, users can right click on one or more imported mesh features of interest, and convert them into Base features (solids, surfaces, or composites) through a new context menu command. The Mesh Enabler for 2013/2012 adds the ability to post process the imported mesh data to convert the mesh features to Inventor Base features. In addition to Catia files, Inventor 2013 can import mesh data from STL files and from JT files. As shipped Inventor 2012 can import mesh data from Catia files. The Inventor Mesh Enabler is a free Technology Preview that enables Inventor users to work with imported Mesh data.

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